Have worked in nj store about 15 years. Our store changed hours 9 to9 now everybody's hours have been cut to 30 for full timers did away with data now manager supposed to do it. Sales are bad think we are on closing list lease is up later this year thing are just strange never saw it like this before
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Anybody that works in a Kmart store can login on the sign machine and see which Sears and Kmart's are closing. Click on the Kmart icon and look for the words Vendor Portal. Click on the words Vendor Portal and login and you can see all the Sears and Kmart stores that have closed, are going to close and when they will close. I used to check it daily until my job was eliminated 3/4/2016 on my 38yr anniversary.
At least you are opening at 9. We won't open till 10. Doing our layaway return to stock early in the morning hurt our morning sales, so on paper it looks like we don't have any sales early on. Opening at 10 is Just one more dumb decision that will deter customers from shopping at our store. The only thing we are successful at anymore is pushing customers to our competitors.
Our store almost makes money every year. Most of our hours have been cut to the bone. Full timers cut to 32 hours, part timers cut to 12 hours per week to 3 hours per week.
Trucks still come in with more merchandise than we could ever sell much less stock. Company still expects everything to run just like it did 10 years ago when I started.
My job used to be 32 hours a week, now it is down to 12 hours. Same amount of work to be done, same amount of reports to fill out etc. How do they expect us to do the work with no hours. We let go of all of our Christmas help along with most of our department leads and haven't hired anyone to replace them. One cashier all day long, no one working layaway or online orders (you get to it when you can). Long time employees quit everyday, no one to replace them. What a great company to work for. Definitely a case study on how not to run a business.